Decatur Community News Briefs Include Visits and Local Events
E M Chandler a prominent Decatur resident visited De catur on Thursday. Os Layman to teach at St Johns Episcopal Sunday at 10. There will be a Christmas entertainment and gifts for St Johns children Tuesday at 7 30. Miss Ludie Moore Pointer returns to court duty this morning. Albert Jervis of St Louis to visit parents A D Jervis and wife for Christmas. Jervis comments on all Southern selections and Pasadena trip. Rains delay paving projects. highway opening later after year. No police arrests for three days. taxes expected to rise with courthouse traffic. Jervis mentions preferring baseball to football. A D Jervis recalls watching World Series in St Louis. Christmas holidays planned with Rev George E Boyd family. Energy
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St. John’s Church
Charity drive appeal to Decatur council and McLeod
A plea asks readers to send or deliver November checks to the Decatur Charity Council and E W McLeod at Morgan Coin with emphasis on great need and timely support for the charity organization during a critical period.
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Decatur Charity Council
E. W.mcleod
Morgan
Mrs Jones Sent Home After Birmingham Auto Injuries
Mrs. Kimball B. Jones was moved from Benevolent hospital to her mother Mrs. Bloodworth’s home at 419 Johnston Street after recovering from automobile injuries in Birmingham ten days ago. Church and community events are announced including a Christmas program at First Methodist Church and a White Christmas program Sunday evening.
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Kimball B. Jones
Benevolent Hospital
Birmingham
Mary. Bloodworth
Johnston Street
First Methodist
Classified Ads turn big worries into small in Decatur Daily
A playful note celebrates how The Decatur Daily Classified Ads transform large concerns into tiny ones and tiny ones into nothing, likening the paper’s notices to a clever problem solver.
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Decatur Daily
Enactment of Relief Acts Moves Through Congress
Washington reports the House adopted the $45 million drought relief conference report today and sent it to the Senate. The measure lacks food loan provisions but allows production loans. it includes advances for seed feed and fertilizer. A separate Muscle Shoals dispute conference was set for tomorrow to break the Christmas stalemate. The broader $311 million bills and the $150 million Farm Board appropriation faced House resistance to three Senate amendments to the $116 million emergency appropriation as conferees eyed swift action on the legislation.
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Francis M. Stephenson
Washington
House
Senate
Muscle Shoals
Ala
McNary
Congress
Watson
Farm Board
White House
House OKs relief bill conference report in $116M package
The House accepted the conference report on the employment relief bill totaling 116 million dollars and rejected three Senate amendments today.
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Washington
House Today
Senate
Matinee Planned at the Princess Theatre
Santa Claus will greet children in the Princess theatre lobby Saturday at ten in the morning for a charity matinee. Proceeds benefit the community welfare board. Admission remains ten cents plus a toy donation, with the toy distribution to needy children.
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Santa Claus
Princess Theatre
Community Welfare Board
Keaton
County tax assessments rush to Assessor O Troup office
A short period remains for property owners to have assessments made without penalty. Many have not yet attended to the duty, and a heavy rush is expected at the office of Assessor Herman O. Troup during the next week.
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Herman O. Troup
Crimson Tide Rolls Westward From Alabama Station
Alabama’s Crimson Tide football team departed by train at 11 17 a m with 215 aboard plus 81 officials and writers, heading to Pasadena for the Rose Bowl. A crowd of 400 bid them bon voyage as the party traveled through Louisiana Texas New Mexico and Arizona toward California.
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Alabama
Crimson Tide
Pasadena
Cal
New Orleans
Louisiana
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
California
Young Man Found Dead in Hotel Room Likely Suicide
The body of a man registered as J. Ashley was found in a local hotel room on December 10. A bullet removed from the head matched a .38 Har-Pepek revolver, supporting suicide. Identification remains uncertain, and the body will stay at Brown Funeral company parlors awaiting relatives.
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J. Ashley
Brown Funeral Company
Kiwanis Christmas Tree Placed in Wheeler Park
The Kiwanis club has set up a Christmas tree in Wheeler Park and it will be lit during the holiday week. Townfolk and visitors in Decatur cheer the annual tree placement at the park each year.
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Kiwanis
Wheeler Park
Toro
Kiwanis Club
Decatur
Remains of Czarist Family aboard American Train
The Times notes the Czar Nicholas II and his family were moved from Siberia under American flag protection. A chest carried by the white army's remnants contained what officials described as the last of the imperial family, prompting astonishment from Harbin officials as they unloaded the cargo in Vladivostok bound for allied departure.
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Nicholas II
Siberia
New York Times Today
Ceeeeee Ean
Harbin
Manchuria
the Times
Kolchak
Harris
Omsk
Horvath
Vladivostok
Clarkin
Old Harbin
Iowa
Samovars
Reward Offered for Slayings in Montgomery
Montgomery authorities offer a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the slayer of Zack T. Robertson a Cleburne County farmer shot at his door on December 11. The case unsettled as police seek tips to solve the killing.
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Montgomery Ala
Zack T. Robertson
Cleburne County
Selma Man Is True Billed By Grand Jury
Grand jury finds L R Dillon tax assessor should not hold office amid audit backed irregularities in his banking and county funds. Speer linked to Southern Railway express car robbery. $6,000 recovered buried at his home. No indictments issued on alleged shortages in Jefferson county court clerkship.
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L. R. Dillion
Speer
Southern Railway
Terminale
Selma
Dillon
Bank of Ensley
Bas
State
Jefferson County
Mark L. Jeter
Birmingham
John Maxwell Is Another Old Timer
Deputy tax assessor John Maxwell complains of being omitted from a Daily notice about Sheriff B E Davis and John Green. Maxwell recalls playing with the sheriff and notes Green’s claim that Davis would hop to bat with his shoes off for a quick getaway.
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John Maxwell
the Daily
B. E. Davis
John Green
Alabama
Fred Sington
Mr. Maxwell
Last-Minute Bulletins From Across the Nation
Reports from Tonopah Montgomery Norfolk Nashville and other cities carry updates on a Los Angeles aviatrix killed in a crash a 30 day parole for Joseph Lassiter a dead farmer found shot on the Norfolk Virginia Beach road and legal moves toward a receiver for Southern Publishers Inc.
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Nashville, Tenn
Southern Publishers, Inc
Frank Bass
Bank of Tennessee
Chan
Discovery of a ray piercing lead through heavy plate
Report from Vienna on a ray that can pierce 80 inches of leaden plate with a loss of only half its strength. The breakthrough hints at new high energy physics applications and follows recent measurements by scientists.
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Vienna
Wewoka Gas Well Burns as Deep Rock Reports Drill Progress
In WeWoka Oklahoma on December 19 the Deep Rock Oil Corporation reported its Douglas gas well ignited and burning as it advances toward the new oil and gas field developments amid a merrace to production.
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Wewoka
Okla
Deep Rock Oil Corporation
Douglas
Toda
Alabama to grant Christmas parole to hundreds of long term convicts
In Montgomery Alabama Christmas paroles will release about 300 inmates from state prisons and road camps for 15 days. Lifers and long termers are among those eligible with the state board compiling the list and Governor Graves having started the practice in 1928. Most released inmates are expected to return, with more Black inmates likely included due to prison demographics.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
State Board
Hamp Draper
Board of Administration
Draper
Mr. Draper
Bibb Graves
Five Youths Die as Car Crashes Into Bridge Near Lewisburg
Five youths were killed near Lewisburg when their car crashed into a bridge abutment over the Susquehanna River. The victims included Wheeler Watson son of Federal Judge Albert L. Watson, Hiram Garr, Wilbur Watson, Robert Wilson, and Wil l Rohn. A sixth man, Paul Aunkst, was injured. The car was forced off the road by another vehicle and careened through the tunnel before overturning.
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Lewisburg
Wheeler Watson
Albert L. Watson
Scranton
Hiram Garr
Wilbur
Watsontown
Robert Wilson
Will Rohn
Canton
Paul Aunkst
Watson
Ill at Home J W Quaningod of Morgan County Association
J W Quaningod of the Morgan County Association has been confined at home for two days with a cold.
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J. W. Quaningod
Morgan County & N Association
Films Tonight At Decatur School Balcony Reserved
Tonight at 7 30 the Decatur Daily Birmingham News Age Herald and Decatur Rotary sponsor charity film. A Negro balcony is reserved for Saturday night with admission 35 cents for adults and 20 cents for children. Friday and Saturday matinee prices are 50 and 25 cents respectively.
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Decatur Daily
Birmingham News-Age Herald
Decatur Rotary Club
Forces scouring river swamps as planes aid pursuit
A white man named David Brown of Fort Screven is held by National Guardsmen and a civilian for involvement in the Marion Junction State Bank robbery. In Safford, a posse of 300 continues a wide search for four desperadoes in the Bogue Chitto swamp, aided by planes and dogs as they attempt to locate the robbers who took about $4,000.
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Catherine, Ala
David Brown
Fort Screven
Thee National
Safford
Ala
Chitto
SPS
Marion Junction
Catherine Ed
Clifton
Gee's
Saffport
R.L. Hamner
National Guardsmen
Marion State Bank
Chitto Swamp
Wilcox County
Gum Bottom
King
Capone Could Face Electric Chair for Slayings
Judge John H. Lyle in Chebago said efforts would be made to send Alphonse Capone to the electric chair for the deaths of two men. He called Capone a gang chief who deserves to die. The State's Attorney's office was reviewing the case of Joseph Howard, slain May 8, 1924, as a possible murder basis.
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Chebago
John H. Lyle
Alphonse Capone
Capone
Herald and Examiner
Joseph Howard
Harry Ditchburne
Howard
Johnny Torrio
Mrs. Nettie Rollins Found Dead In Home
Mrs. Nettie Rollins operator of a small East Market mercantile, was found dead in her bed after children could not wake her. Coroner W J Sparkman held an inquest. verdict unknown causes, believed natural. Survived by husband and two children. Body moved to Priest funeral home. funeral arrangements pending.
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Nettie Rollins
East Market Street
Bank Robbers Feared Hidden Near Safford Swamp
In Safford Alabama on December 10 two aircraft joined a morning search for four bank bandits believed to be hiding in Bogue Ghiltto swamp three miles from town. Authorities said the chase was active as troops searched the area.
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Safford
Ala
Bogue
Ghiltto Swamp
Here
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Ong
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Ludie Moore Pointer
Albert Jervis
St. Louis
Mrs
A. D. Jervis
Bob Jervis
Hackman
George E. Boyd
Mr. Jervis
Winloughby Presbyter
England
Japan
New York
America
U. S
Associated Press
Jean Doyle
Sam Frank
Memphis, Tenn
Salt Lake City
Utah
Czar
Russia
Selma Man
Homer Speer
Tonopah
Clair Fahy
Los Angeles
Joseph B. Lassiter
Norfolk, Va
J.T. Howe
Norfolk-Virginia Beach Highway
W. F. Hess
Charles A. Moffett
Sam Cloud
Death Sentenge
Lyle Willoe
N. Rollins
Tsropping
Wilson
Riverside
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